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what are the details? Windstream (NASDAQ:WIN) Carrier Solutions has reorganized its business unit around a vertical sales focus. As part of that move, Mike Shippey, President of Windstream Carrier Solutions, announced the promotion of Joe Scattareggia to Senior Vice President of Sales. Scattareggia will oversee all sales teams within the Carrier organization, which are being […]

Chequed.com and SocialFlow Also Complete Fundraising in Third Quarter 2015 Rand Capital Corporation (NASDAQ:RAND), a business development company that makes venture capital investments in companies with emerging product, service or technology concepts, announced that one of the largest holdings in its portfolio, Rheonix, Inc. (www.rheonix.com), recently completed a $28.6 million Series B...

Oil and gas CEOs jointly declare action on climate change The chief executive officers of 10 of the world’s largest oil and gas companies – which together provide almost a fifth of all oil and gas production and supply nearly 10% of the world’s energy – today declared their collective support for an effective climate […]

The share price of global retail giant, Walmart (NYSE:WMT) hit the wall on Wall Street yesterday, dropping nearly 10% from 66.61 to 60.02. The company announced its projected earnings for the next three years. It did not set well with the people to whom those earnings mean the most – Walmart investors. Walmart investors have […]

Round lead by Joe Lonsdale from Formation 8 with participation from Y Combinator and Peter Thiel from Founders Fund BuildZoom today announced a $10.6 million Series A funding round led by Joe Lonsdale from Formation 8 with participation from Y Combinator and Peter Thiel of Founders Fund. The investment from Y Combinator represents one of […]

How did they do? Westamerica Bancorporation (Nasdaq:WABC), parent company of Westamerica Bank, generated net income for the third quarter 2015 of $14.9 million and diluted earnings per common share of $0.58, compared to net income of $14.8 million and EPS of $0.58 for the prior quarter, and net income of $15.2 million and EPS of […]

What are the details? Liquid Holdings Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:LIQD), a SaaS provider of investment management solutions for the buy side, announced today that the Company’s request to stay the suspension of trading in the Company’s common stock pending the completion of its appeal of a delisting notice issued by the staff of Nasdaq has been […]

Michael Dell is continuing to reinvent and rebuild his empire (He is 47th on the 2015 Forbes 400). Dell formally announced this morning that would be acquiring IT services giant EMC (NYSE:EMC) for $67 billion. Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partner spent $25 billion to take his company private in October 2013. At that time, […]

What are the details? Grupo Gondi and WestRock (NYSE:WRK) have agreed to combine their operations in Mexico to form a joint venture, creating a leading paper and packaging company in the country. Grupo Gondi currently operates ten production sites that hold six paper machines, seven corrugated packaging plants and four modern high graphic folding carton […]

What are the details? Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been awarded a $58,706,242 million contract from the Marine Corps to develop and test the Ground Weapon Locating Radar (GWLR) mode for the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR). The GWLR mode is a software update that brings additional mission capability to the ground-based multi-mission Active Electronically […]